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Music and the Politics of Negation

Music and the Politics of Negation

Hardcover

Series: Musical Meaning and Interpretation

Music ReferenceMusic Theory

ISBN10: 0253357039
ISBN13: 9780253357038
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Published: Aug 23 2012
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Over the past quarter century, music studies in the academy have their postmodern credentials by insisting that our scholarly engagements start and end by placing music firmly within its various historical and social contexts. In Music and the Politics of Negation, James R. Currie sets out to disturb the validity of this now quite orthodox claim. Alternating dialectically between analytic and historical investigations into the late 18th century and the present, he poses a set of uncomfortable questions regarding the limits and complicities of the values that the academy keeps in circulation by means of its musical encounters. His overriding thesis is that the forces that have formed us are not our fate.

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